Late Tang

A great battle has just ended, and to the north of Zizhou City, at the foot of Changbai Mountain on the border between Zizhou and Qizhou, beacons are everywhere.Song Wei rode a horse on the battlefield through the corpses, followed by the reorganized military battalion of the commander-in-chief, and the men recruited from nearby were cleaning the horses, looking for the wounded soldiers who were not dead, and removing them from the corpses. He was moved out of the pile and sent to the logistics wounded barracks.There are also some soldiers and horses responsible for cleaning the battlefield, who are checking one by one. The corpses of the Pinglu army will be pulled out and sent aside, and then they will be carried together to be cremated and buried.As for the rebels, regardless of life or death, they will be cut off with a knife, and the heads of these rebels will be nailed to the stakes on the side of the road as a deterrent. They will be thrown directly into mass graves and buried.

The ground at the foot of Changbai Mountain was stained with blood, and the dry and cracked land was in a mess by countless footsteps.Many bloody white-feathered arrows and broken knives and guns were stuck in the desolate land that was cracked like hideous mouths.Those bloody soldiers are bending over to harvest these terrible new 'crops'.

Song Wei walked slowly on the battlefield, some near-death soldiers were struggling and neighing at him, their voices were mournful.But soon the sergeants from the logistics battalion came over to slaughter the horses lying in a pool of blood, and then they would become the dinner in the lunch boxes of the soldiers of the battalions today.

No one wants to eat horse meat, let alone war horse meat.Horse meat is not tasty, sour and dry.But more than 2 horses and horses were stationed at the foot of Changbai Mountain, and the food was almost there, but the food and grass that were urged to be transported later had not yet arrived. If they didn't eat this, they could only eat grass roots and bark.Compared with grass root bark, horse meat is undoubtedly a better choice, even if these war horses have just been pulled from a pool of blood.

Far away, a rebel jumped up from under the corpses on the battlefield and fled up the mountain.Several soldiers who were cutting off the heads of the corpses of the rebels were shouting and chasing him, and they quickly surrounded him in a circle.A cavalryman rushed over quickly, and whipped the boy's face with a riding whip, leaving bloodstains on his face.A few more soldiers beat the boy's legs with spears from behind, causing him to fall over and over again. Finally, when the boy could no longer get up, a soldier stepped forward and stabbed the boy in the back with a spear. heart, and then chopped off his head with a knife.

After chopping off his head, several soldiers even kicked that head as a ball, jostling and laughing at each other.

The military envoy of the former military battalion was Deputy Commander Kang Chenghui, who temporarily acted as the military envoy of the former army who sought out the thieves.Kang Chenghui's armor was neither scarlet nor silvery white, but a dark gray color, which seemed to be reddish in black upon closer inspection.His set of armor is all made of fine steel, even the arm armor and greaves are also made of fine steel, the full set of armor weighs [-] jin.When he puts on the armor, the strongest horse must be able to pull him up.On the battlefield before, a rebel general who had secretly mocked him as a coward at a certain banquet in Qingzhou confronted him, but was beaten for only one round with the Mo Dao weighing eighteen catties in his hand. Cut off the horse.

Kang Chenghui stepped forward, apologetically apologizing to Song Wei: "I failed to keep Zhang Chan, and he ran away?"

"How about the casualties of the soldiers?" Song Wei asked.

"Although the commander-in-chief had expected the rebel army to come, and we had already arranged it in advance, it's a pity that these are all cowards. Ten thousand soldiers fought against Zhang Chan's three thousand soldiers, and they were killed by them in the end. Just started Counting, we wiped out [-] rebels, but we only killed more than [-] people in battle, and injured more than [-] people. In three-on-one, or ambushes, our casualties were twice as many as the opponent's. The beating is so f*ckingly condescending." Kang Chenghui said bitterly.

Since recapturing Qingzhou and crossing the Zishui River into Zizhou, the battle has not been smooth.First, when the former army was chasing him, Wang Jingwu returned his carbine and was ambushed by the rebels. He was defeated for a while and lost more than a thousand troops.Immediately after joining the central and rear troops, they chased all the way to the city of Zizhou and surrounded the enemy's city.Unexpectedly, in the end, because of some food and grass problems and the problem of rewards, a military town in Zizhou was persuaded by Zhang Chan, secretly responded, and Wang Jingwu attacked the enemy camp at night, causing the Pinglu army to lose another battle and damage the army. More than 3000 people were recruited.

The city was besieged for several days afterwards, but there was no result. Instead, the various ministries were at odds with each other, and food and grass ran out.Song Wei ordered to temporarily retreat to Changbai Mountain on the Lianjie of Ziqi, first to cut off the passage that should be the two states, and second, to wait for the arrival of food and grass temporarily, while reorganizing the troops.In addition, Song Wei also reserved a trick to lure Wang Jingwu out of the city to pursue him.

As a result, Wang Jingwu didn't move at first, but then suddenly sent troops to attack. Although Song Wei had laid an ambush earlier, who would have thought that 1 people ambushed 3000 people, but in the end they only wiped out [-] enemies, and paid double the price.

It's not that Wang Jingwu and the rebels are too powerful, it's that the Pinglu army is too useless.

In fact, except for more than [-] united soldiers, the Pinglu Army's battalions and towns still have combat effectiveness.However, these battalion leaders are all extremely cunning, no one is willing to do their best, they all want to preserve their strength, when fighting, everyone is unwilling to put their heart into it, and the results of the battle are naturally unsightly.

"Judge Lei, how long will it take for Cui Sima's food and grass to arrive?" After entering the Chinese military tent, Song Wei summoned several important officials from the commander's mansion.

Lei Gang, the judge of Jiedu, said with some embarrassment: "Commander, when Wang Jingwu escaped from Qingzhou last time, he sent people to set fire to various warehouses in the city. Although we sent people to rescue them later, we only rescued a small number of them. This time more than [-] troops assembled, and almost all the ministries only brought food and grass for a few days, all of which were waiting for our supply. One person had two liters of rice a day, and the two of them had [-] liters a day, which was almost two hundred Shi Mi, in addition to the tens of thousands of people who were called together, plus those war horses, people eat and chew, it is really not small. For a while, it was difficult to raise money. Now Cui Sima has discussed with several big families in Qingzhou For the time being, we have borrowed food from various families, and we have raised [-] shi of grain and grass for a month, but Qingzhou is not far from here, and we have to send folks to deliver it along the way."

Sitting there, Song Wei only felt pain from the abdominal wound, and couldn't help frowning, his face turned paler.

"Marshal, if you want me to say, there is no hope for these bastards. In my opinion, if you want to wipe out Wang Jingwu's rebels, you must recover Ziqi and Qizhou as soon as possible. The only way to do it now is to transfer Li Jing Or, send Song Wenwen and Dengzhou soldiers, Dengzhou soldiers are stronger than these cowardly soldiers, and with Song Wen and others on our side, our direct troops will be able to wipe out Wang Jingwu."

Wu Zhen, the secretary in charge, also nodded. It is obvious to all that Li Jing and his Zhendong army are so powerful. If there is no Li Jing this time, they will not say whether they can escape Wang Jingwu's Hongmen Banquet, even if they escape, Qingzhou will not be able to escape. It must be impossible to win it back for a while, let alone defeat the rebels by the Zishui River, behead [-] people, and capture [-] people.

Song Wei didn't know how powerful Li Jing and Zhendong Army were, but he had to carefully weigh some things.Li Jing was halfway through the fight, but suddenly returned to Dengzhou. The navy divisions of Qingzhou, Dengzhou, and Laizhou refused to surrender to the Dengzhou soldiers. It is suspected that Li Jing deliberately let Wang Jingwu go by the Zishui River, and there was some kind of deal between them.

What's more important is that although Li Jing's sword is sharp, it is a double-edged sword, and it is easy to hurt himself if he is not careful.The current situation has proved his judgment. Compared with Wang Jingwu, Li Jing is not a fuel-efficient lamp.It's just that Wang Jingwu was looking for the position of Jieshuai, and now Li Jing didn't have such a big appetite, he was just plotting Dengzhou.But this has already shown its signs. Li Jing got Dengzhou now, and when his wings are stronger, he wants Qingzhou at that time, will he also give it to him?

From the very beginning, Song Wei had no intention of handing over the Governor of Dengzhou to Li Jing, not even giving him the bugle number of the Zhendong Army.It's just that Li Jing cut first and then played. Before he came, he had already played the banner of Zhendong Army. At that time, Li Jing was urgently needed, so he had no choice but to acquiesce.But then, in his memorial to the imperial court, when he asked the imperial court for Li Jing to seal the positions of the Eastern Army's envoy and defense envoy, but did not mention the governor of Dengzhou, it was his one-step strategy.

His plan is very simple, that is, he himself first agreed to the posts of Li Jing's Zhendong army envoy and defense envoy, and then sent these two tasks that he could be the master of to the imperial court. Lu Xie vetoed this proposal because there could be many reasons. After all, Li Jing was just a united soldier a year ago.Regardless of capital prestige or background, it is not enough for him to sit on the high position of the third rank within a year.He planned to wait for the imperial court to veto it, and then he would come forward at that time, and it would be enough to promote Li Jing as a soldier and horse envoy, and add at most one deputy envoy of the Dengzhou regiment.

This is a very good plan, but who would have expected that the emperor would praise Li Jing so much, and not only passed all of them at once, but also added so many official positions to Li Jing.It is said that Li Jing is now his subordinate general, but in fact his rank is already equal to him.In particular, Li Jing now has an official position as the Protector of Anton, and he is also a Marquis, and his Marquis of Wuning is a County Marquis, but Li Jing is a County Marquis. He is also a Marquis, but he is actually two levels higher than him.

The plan couldn't keep up with the changes, and I wanted to use the court to block Li Jing, but now it is no longer feasible.Li Jing fled so fast that Song Wei felt a threat even stronger than Wang Jingwu.

If possible, of course Song Wei would like to transfer Li Jing, but Li Jing led his troops back to Dengzhou without saying a word. Will not be returning.If Song Wenwen and Dengzhou soldiers were transferred instead of Li Jing, the result would be that Dengzhou would be seized by Li Jing, and it would be difficult to take it back when it came to his mouth.

On the one hand, Wang Jingwu's rebellion has not been resolved, but on the other hand, Li Jing's sudden aggressiveness.One occupies the two states of Ziqi and Qi, and the other is eyeing Dengzhou.Song Wei felt dizzy for a while, and the current situation seemed to be more troublesome than when he first came to Qingzhou.

"If Li Jing's Zhendong Army and Song Wen's Dengzhou Soldiers are not dispatched, and we only serve as soldiers in our hands, will it be difficult to put down Wang Jingwu?" Song Wei asked.

The people in Jieshuaizhu thought for a while, and finally shook their heads. It wasn't that they didn't have confidence, it was just a group of loose sand and mobs. How could they deal with a group of deadly rebels with such soldiers.

Song Wei let out a long sigh, he seemed to be much older, he thought that if Wang Jingwu was forced to turn against him, everything would be fine in the next situation, who would have thought that it would turn into such a mess.

Taking out the letter sent by Song Wen, he carefully read it several times.

Pick it up and put it down, put it down and pick it up again, after repeating this several times.Finally, he finally made up his mind. In the current situation, there are famines everywhere in Shandong, and there are many refugees. Wang Jingwu has already recruited a large number of refugees to join the army. If this drags on, it will be even more difficult to put down the rebellion.And if it drags on for too long, even if the rebellion is quelled by then, Ziqing Town will be in ruins.

Forget it, let's take advantage of the little wolf Li Jing first, and clean up the blind bear Wang Jingwu first.

"Judge Lei, please go to Dengzhou again on my behalf, and pass on my commander-in-chief. From now on, Li Jing will take over as the governor of Dengzhou and also the defense envoy of Dengzhou. Dengzhou will be garrisoned by the Zhendong Army after that, and the rest of the troops in Dengzhou Ma immediately led his troops to Zizhou to quell the chaos."

"Is it so cheap for Li Jing?" Kang Chenghui said a little unwillingly.They fought life and death in front, but Li Jing dug Dengzhou behind them before they captured the two states of Qi and Qi.

"Of course it can't be so cheap. Didn't Li Jing say that he would give us 100 shi of food and grass and 30 million military expenses for fighting the chaos?" Song Wei said with a dark face: "These are not enough, let Li Jing take out 300 shi of food and grass and 30 million yuan In addition, there are [-] sets of swords, guns, bows and arrows, [-] arrows, and [-] horses. When he handed over these things, Song Wen will hand over Dengzhou to Li Jing, or else the emperor will let him He is a defense envoy, but Song Wen is still the governor of Dengzhou and the regiment training envoy."

Although handing over Dengzhou made everyone feel distressed, it would not be a loss if they could get so many things back.What's more, it is really difficult for Ziqing to support it now.Lei Gang nodded, he believed that Li Jing would be willing to accept this almost extortionate condition.

Although Song Wei wants a lot, Lei Gang, who has been to Dengzhou Shamen Town, knows Li Jing's wealth.

"Please don't worry Jieshuai, I will definitely go back early."

A general said: "Just let Li Jing get that flying fire for a thousand or eight hundred, then Wang Jingwu can be directly tied."

Song Wei waved his hand, "This Feihuo is an extremely confidential item, last time Li Jing didn't bring it himself, we know that this item is precious and rare, we don't necessarily want it even if we ask, so we simply forgot about it. "After a pause, he said again: "If Li Jing is not willing to take out so many things, Judge Lei, you can do it yourself, and you can do less. Guan Jian will bring Dengzhou soldiers here as soon as possible."

"understand!"

(To be continued)